Le Chat
Mistral's assistant runs its own open and commercial models with EU data residency, positioned as the sovereign alternative for European enterprises.
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Le Chat vs ERNIE Bot
Le Chat (Mistral) and ERNIE Bot (Baidu) both sit in Writing. ERNIE Bot is the cheaper entry point at Pay-as-you-go API pricing based on tokens. Token Plan Personal Edition and some free trials available.. ERNIE Bot shipped more tracked changes in the last 30 days (25 vs 1). Every value below comes from the latest crawl of the vendors' own pages.
| Attribute | Le Chat Mistral | ERNIE Bot Baidu |
|---|---|---|
| Segment | Writing | Writing |
| Version | The all new Le Chat | 5.0-thinking-preview |
| Entry cost | Free tier · from $14.99/mo | Pay-as-you-go API pricing based on tokens. Token Plan Personal Edition and some free trials available. |
| Pricing tiers | Free free · Pro $14.99 · Team $24.99 · Enterprise free | Token Plan Personal Edition / Pay-as-you-go free |
| Model stack | Magistral · Mistral Large · Mistral Large 3 · Mistral Medium 3.5 · Mistral OCR 4 · Mistral Small · Mistral Small 4 · OCR 4 · OCR 4.1 · Voxtral · Voxtral TTS | DeepSeek-V3.1 · ERNIE 4.5 (open weights) · ERNIE 4.5 Turbo · ERNIE 4.5 Turbo VL · ERNIE 4.5 VL 28B A3B · ERNIE 5.0 · ERNIE X1.1 Preview · ernie-4.5-turbo-128k · ERNIE-5.0-Thinking-Preview |
| Context window | 256K | 119k |
| Public API | ||
| Routes models | ||
| Changes / 30d | 1 | 25 |
| Origin | EU | China |
| Capabilities | EU data residency, Open-weight lineage, Deep research, Code interpreter, Connectors, Web searches, Voice mode, Canvas | Multimodal input, Search integration, Digital humans, Enterprise Qianfan platform, Multi-Agent, RAG, Multimodal, OCR |
ERNIE Bot
Baidu's assistant (Wenxin Yiyan), backed by the ERNIE model line and integrated into Baidu Search.
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